{"id":3617,"date":"2011-06-11T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2011-06-11T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T22:56:08","slug":"taking-the-sheen-off-of-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2011\/06\/taking-the-sheen-off-of-reagan.html","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Sheen off of Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youarenotsosmart.com\/2011\/06\/10\/the-backfire-effect\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"President Reagan\" src=\"http:\/\/youarenotsosmart.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/presidentronaldreagan.jpg?w=288&amp;h=360\" alt=\"President Reagan\" width=\"288\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who knew Reagan was a MaSheen?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was reading a somewhat interesting article on my computer called &#8220;<a title=\"The Backfire Effect&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/youarenotsosmart.com\/2011\/06\/10\/the-backfire-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Backfire Effect<\/a>,&#8221; when my 16-year old son wandered into the room.\u00a0 He did what he always does&#8230; made a lazy circle around behind me and perused whatever was on my screen.<\/p>\n<p>It just so happened, I was far enough down the page that the picture of Reagan (shown to the right) was on the monitor.<\/p>\n<p>It was at that moment I became comforted my boy had not fallen in with any Young Republican groups at school, nor had he been sneaking out at night to attend Tea Party rallies.<\/p>\n<p>He looked at me and said, &#8220;Is that Charlie Sheen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I have to admit, there is a resemblance.\u00a0 Maybe that&#8217;s why Reagan has become a sacred idol of the Conservatives.\u00a0 He&#8217;s got tiger blood too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was comforted my son had not fallen in with any Young Republican groups at school, nor had he been sneaking out at night to attend Tea Party rallies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,8],"tags":[21,130,15],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justforfun","category-politics","category-sliceoflife","tag-conservatives","tag-humor","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}